Dhruv Gairola
Engineering Manager at Okta
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDhruv Gairola is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading and scaling high-performance teams and distributed systems, currently at Okta after impactful leadership at Wealthsimple. He combines hands-on backend, database and infrastructure expertise with people operations—hiring, career progression and performance management—to drive technical north stars and measurable business outcomes. At Wealthsimple he modernized incentive and trading platforms, built the company’s first Kafka pipeline that handled a 400% volume surge, and launched fractional trading and LLM-driven client profiling. He has a research-grounded CS background (MSc) and a founder/CTO track record building a machine-learning data prep product that cut prep time by 80%. Known for translating complex technical bottlenecks into multi-team programs, Dhruv also writes about engineering and scaling at dhruvgairola.com.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (Thesis) Computer Science, MSc (Thesis) Computer Science at McMaster UniversityBSc (Honours) Computer Science, BSc (Honours) Computer Science at University of NottinghamComputer Science, Computer Science at CourseraSingapore Cambridge GCE A Levels Science, Singapore Cambridge GCE A Levels Science at National Junior College
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
9,132reputation
1.3mreached
163answers
15questions
android
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swing
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enums
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algorithm
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model-view-controller
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java
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Github Skills (30)
model-view-controller10
image9
algorithm9
enums9
java9
android9
arraylist9
swing9
concurrency6
binary-tree6
android-layout6
binary-search-tree6
multithreading6
bundle6
binding5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dhruvgairola/privacyCleaning
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
dhruvgairola/dhruvgairola.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:221 pushes, 2 tags in 10 years 2 months
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